Huntsville gazette., 1887-08-13
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

time on.
The treasurer of Daviess County, Ind,
| is short several thousand dollars in his
accounts, owing to his allowing himself
to be imposed upon by pretended friends.
WILFoRD WOODRUFF, president Of the
Mormon apostles, has temporarily assumed
| the leadership of the affairs of the Latter
| Day Saints.
| BY fire near London on the 9th 81, ,250,-
600 worth of property was destroyed and
| five lives were lost.
| AT the close of the week ended the 9Th,
the Detroits were still in the lead in the
National Baseball League series, Chicago
being three games behind and having
played one less than Detroit. In the AS
sociation, Louisville had passed Baltimore
| for second place, st. Louis being still a
| good, long first. ss--.--..4
| Ar Milwaukee, Wis, on the 9Th, during
the launching of a vessel, two hundred
people were carried down by falling
roof, on which they had secured places of
vantage to witness the launch. Many of
them were either crushed to death or
drowned, and many more were injured.
JEAN DURAND, whose father was COM
| modore in the early American navy, died
! in New York on the 4th in abject poverty
at the age of over one hundred years, and,
failing patriotic action, will rest in pau
| per's grave.
| THE pitcher of the Albion Qa.) baseball
| nine is preacher, and at game played
ON the 9th with the Grinnell Club, it is
said, he prayed, preached to the umpire,
who was inclined to favor the other side,
| and pitched such good game that the
Grinnells were hardly able to touch him.
! The people of the township of Tay-
mouth, Saginaw County, Mich, are in a
state bordering on terror at the depreda-
| ations of a gang Of young toughs, mostly
strangers, who rob houses, compel house
holders to get up dinners for them, and
who enforce their demands at the muzzles
| of shotguns.
| HENRY COUNTY, Ia, one of the oldest To-
calities in the State, celebrated Old Set
tiers day ON the 9th, at Mount Pleasant,
with great enthusiasm. Twelve thousand
people were present.
| A BLooDLEss duel was fought with re-
volvers at Montreal, Cam, on the night of
the 9th, between Mr.. Bolvin, city editor of
| French newspaper, and Viscount
| Daignaut, who is connected with French
| theater. 1t is intimated that only blank
| cartridges were provided by the seconds.
| of Pittsburgh, Pa, against a number of
| druggists for selling soda-water on SUM-
| day, Judge Collier, on the 9Th, affirmed the
| convictions of the defendants on the ground
that soda-water was not an overpowering
| necessity and was not sold as a medicine.
A NATIONALIST and Orange riot occurred
on the 7th near Belfast. One man was
killed and many injured.
L. e sv1n fo$ pf
motion over the apparent discovery Of
natural gas on farm in that township.
FRANK CLARK was shot at Eaton Rapids,
Mich, on the night of the 9th, by John
Williams, and died the next morning.
Clark insisted ON being introduced to a
young woman with whom Clark attended
the Salvation Army meeting, and being re-
fused he assaulted Williams and was
shot.
MRS. LoGAN's accident having proved of
more serious character than was at first
imagined, she will be confined to her
couch for many weeks yet. Although the
second setting Of the injured shoulder was
| successful, much time and strength was
wasted by unskillful treatment at the first.
FIRST ASSISTANT PosTMAsTER-GENERAL
| STEVENSON has accepted an invitation to
deliver the annual address at an agricult-
ural fair of the counties comprising the
Fifth congressional district of Illinois, to
| be held at Woodstock, McHenry County.
The address will be delivered on the 9th
| of September next.
WHEN Sherman w. Knevals, law-part-
ner of the late President Arthur, arrived
| from Europe by the Servia on the 7th, he
was met by the announcement that his
! only son, Russell w. Knevals, twenty-five
years old, was dead. Young Knevals was
| found dead in his bed in the morning. he
| probably died of heart disease.
AMONG the arrivals from Europe on the
! 7th were Mr.. McLane, Minister to France,
! and John W. Mackay. The latter being
| interviewed refused to say whether it was
true that he had bought James Gordon
Benefits share in the Commercial Cable
| Company. or whether he had made any
agreement with Jay Gould which would
make the cable rates forty cents word.
THE i-Prohibition majority in Texas
| will exceed 100000.
KIT rCARsoN's son is reported killed by a
desperate in Colorado.
FRENCH editor has been fined and sem
fenced to prison for unfairly woundlng an
| adversary in duel.
INVITATIONS to visit different cities are
still pouring in on the President.
NEWS from Halifax, N. S., indicates that
the fisheries complications are taking on
very serious phases.
ArroRNEY-GENERALG GARLAND arrived in
Arkansas on the Sth, and is preparing to
go a-fishing.
M. KATKoFF's funeral occurred at Nos
COW on the Sth. The pageant and the
ceremonies were very imposing and i'm
pressive.
ARCHBISHOP WALSH gives prophesy OF
what the effects of coercion will be, and
appeals for cessation of evictions in Ire
land.
THE opinion prevails at London that
little real good can accrue to the Irish
tenantry from the Land bill which
recently passed the Commons.
BARON BILLING, late French Ambassador
| to Sweden, while visiting friends ip Al
| SAGE, was expelled from the provinces by
the German authorities.
THREE new cases of fever were reported
at Kew West on the 8th. There were no
deaths. The last $50 cases have been
nearly all children with less than two per